A valley still recovering
Eighteen months after bushfire swept through Wandarra Valley, the terrain is only starting to recover — and a sarcoptic mange outbreak has emerged in three of our five monitored burrow clusters. Mange is a highly contagious mite infestation, often fatal if untreated, and it spreads fastest through exactly the kind of stressed, fire-damaged habitat we're watching.
Burrow Watch exists to catch it early. Volunteer rangers patrol five zones across the valley, logging burrow condition and reporting anything that looks like early-stage mange to our contract vet — often the difference between a wombat that recovers and one that doesn't.
- Region
- Wandarra Valley
- Active volunteers
- ~22 rangers
- Patrol zones
- 5
- Reporting cycle
- Quarterly
What a patrol actually looks like
For workshop participants
Burrow Watch's own materials — background, transcripts, and data — are on the resources page. How to actually build and run the AI assistant that uses them, including a copy-paste prompt and notes for Copilot, is on the toolkit page.